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KMID : 1148220190150020205
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2019 Volume.15 No. 2 p.205 ~ p.235
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The Group Art Therapy’s Efects on the Quality of Life of Patients’ with Incurable Diseases
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Gil Eun-Young
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Abstract
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Patients that sufer from incurable disease are more likely to be deteriorated in various areas of their lives, such as the quality of life, including physical and psychological health, social relations, and the environment. This study was designed to find out the quality of life and efects of group art therapy on the emotional expresion and self-image of patients with incurable diseases. We employed the use of WHOOQOL?CS (Quality of life) and DAS as research tols to compare the emotions, quality of life, and self-image. The subjects of this study were ten adults with 10 sesions and 120 minutes for each sesion. Based on data, activities and works that recorded the whole proces, we analyzed the quality of each sesion, group stage and individual. The results of this study were as folows. First, group art therapy has brought positive changes to the quality of lives of adults living with incurable diseases. Second, as a result of DAS, group art therapy brought positive changes in expresing various emotions to the patients with refractory adult patients who led daily lives while helples, depresed and having negative self-image due to ilnes. Moreover, patients with refractory ilnes who showed changes in self - image and emotions had a meaningful change in the social relation area of quality of life by receiving care in groups, recognizing oneself positively through art medium and emotional ventilation. This study is limited to a single group. However, it is important to suggest the ned for group art therapy and can have a positive impact on their lives as a social concern and psychological interventions for chronicaly incurable patients.
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KEYWORD
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Incurable Disease, G roup Art Therapy, Quality of Life, DAS
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